INDEX

TO THE LIFE OF

THE MARQUIS OF WORCESTER.

Act of Parliament for the Water-commanding Engine, applied for, [253]; proceedings in respect to, [254]–[256]; royal assent given, [256]; the Act, [Appendix C.]

Adams, Mr., Lord Herbert’s preceptor, [141].

Albemarle, Duke of, letter from, [268], [269]; another letter, [277]; names the Crown’s debts, [278]; statement made to him of expenditure in the late King’s service, [278], [280].

Alchemy in vogue, [16].

Allen, Captain, taken at Padstow, with the Earl of Glamorgan’s dispatches, [124]; promised assistance, [125]; bearer of a letter, [126]; Glamorgan reports Allen having been taken, [170].

Allowance of £3. per week, Cromwell’s Warrant for, [213].

Alonzo, Don, his answer, sent, [218].

Anne, Countess of Worcester, her death, [31].

Antonio, Captain, two frigates, [170].

Apocryphal passages relating to the Marquis of Worcester, [Appendix H.]

Aristocracy of the 17th century, social habits, [5]; luxuries of the table, and of dress, [5].

Arlington, Lord, letter to, [269]; the Marquis seeks his services, [274].

Arundel, Henry Frederick, Earl of; marries Anne, daughter of Edward Lord Herbert, [17].

Backhouse, Lieut. has command of war horses taken at Gloucester, [62].

Bacon, Lord, death of, [16].

Badminton House, Gloucestershire, visited by Charles II. and his Queen, [260].

Baker, Thomas, engineer, his Poem on “The Steam Engine,” [258]; notice of “The Century,” [258], [259].

Balfour, Sir William, Lieutenant of the Tower, [25]; commanded at Edge-hill, [25].

Bate, John, his work, 1634–35, [29]; remarks on water-works, [29].

Bayly, Dr. Thomas, noticed, [9]; relates a Welsh legend, and occurrence at Carnarvon, [94]; chaplain at Raglan Castle, [96]; his “Apophthegms,” [96]; Lord Herbert’s water-works, [100], [101]; his dedication of his book, [110], [111]; relates a domestic incident, [149], [150]; leaves Raglan Castle, [153]; visits the Marquis at Covent Garden, [154]; attends the Marquis’s funeral, [155].

Baynards Castle, correspondence from, respecting Henry Lord Herbert’s marriage, [1], [2], [3], [4].

Beauchamp, Mary, Lady; married to Lord Herbert, [220]; Certificate, [220].

Beaufort, Henry, Duke of, his mother, [16], [17]; his birth, death, and age, (note) [16]; at six years of age, [23]; ten years of age, [26]; “a match propounded for” him, to his grandfather, by Charles I., [103]; Petitions the House of Commons, [201]; his property, [202], [203], [204]; resolutions in regard to value, &c. [205], [206], [207]; sat in the Cromwellian parliament, [210]; his father’s estates in Monmouthshire enjoyed by Cromwell, [210]; Cromwell’s caution, [210]; marriage, [220]; resident at Badminton House, [226]; going to Dover, [226]; letter to his wife, [226]; a prisoner in the Tower, [233]; letter to his wife, [233]; his age, [233]; constituted Lord Lieutenant of Gloucestershire, [233]; parliamentary clause in respect to his property, [238]; ordered by Parliament to give up his father’s deeds and writings, [238]; delivers a message to the Lords, [243]; carries the bill to the Lords for the Water-commanding Engine, [256]; visit of Charles II. and his Queen, [260]; sits in the House of Peers, (note) [282]; attests his father’s funeral Certificate, [300]; letters patent granted him remitting payments due from his father, [303]; a commissioner to distribute fund for poor Cavaliers, [317], [318]; his progress through Wales, (note) [317]; return to Badminton, (note) [318]; published account of his progress, (note) [318].

Bedford, Lord of, [2].

Bedford, Earl of, Francis Russell, [6].

Bible, new translation published, [7].

Birch’s, Dr. statement about Glamorgan’s going to Wales, [87].

Blackfriars, the seat of fashion, [1]; marriage of Lord Herbert there, [2]; Queen Elizabeth’s stay there, [3]; ceremony on arrival, [3]; supper there, [4].

Blackstone, Sir Ralph, named, [141].

Blaxton, Sir William, assists to retake Monmouth, [63].

Bosdon, Edward, Glamorgan’s Instructions to, [87].

Boteler, Allen, his business from Charles I. to the Marquis of Worcester, at Raglan Castle, [142]; his journey, [142]; difficulties and dangers, [143]; arrives at Raglan, [144]; disappointment, [144]; stern reception, [144]; interview with the Marquis, [144], [145]; who plainly declares his sentiments respecting Charles Ist’s treatment of his son, [145]; neglected, and detained, leaves precipitately, [145], [146]; his adventures, and return to Oxford, [146], [147].

Brecknock garrisoned, [60], [332].

Brereton, Roger, his letter to the Countess of Glamorgan, [129].

Brereton, Sir William, his letter-book, [87].

Brett, Sir Jeremiah, before Gloucester, [56].

Bridgewater, Earl of, named, [24].

Brompton Castle, council of war to take it, [58].

Burton, Thomas, M.P., reports on the Marchioness of Worcester’s Petition, [195]; his remarks on the Marquis of Worcester’s character, being then a state prisoner, [212]; his conduct that of a soldier, and always civil, [212].

Byron, Sir John, Lieutenant of the Tower, [23]; named, [35], [36]; his letters, July, 1642, [41], [42], [59]; his regiment, [67]; named, [328], [330], [331].

Bythell, John, his letter to his father, about the Earl of Glamorgan and others, [88]; escapes shipwreck, his cargo of corn seized, [90]; a prisoner, [90], [91]; list of passengers and crew, [92].

Calehof, Calthoff, Caltrop, Colthoff—see [Kaltoff.]

Cardiff garrisoned, [60]; named, [328], [332].

Carlyon garrisoned, [60], [332].

Carte and Dr. Birch’s erroneous statement about Glamorgan’s leaving for Ireland, [93]; corrected, [93].

Carnarvon, Robert Earl of, marriage of his sister Elizabeth to Edward Lord Herbert, [16]; her death, [23].

Castlemaine, Lady, undertakes a request to the King, [275].

Catholic Clergy, Irish Roman, [114], [115], [119]; Glamorgan solicits consent for post of Lord Lieutenant, [181]; Glamorgan’s complicity with, [184]; great secrecy observed, [184].

Catholic Princes, Roman, with the Pope, to supply £30,000, to support an army in England, in the cause of Charles I. [228]; Glamorgan’s power to treat, [229].

Catholic, Roman, Lord Lieutenant, [115].

Catholic, Roman, Religion, Glamorgan’s engagement to support measures for the good of, [160].

Catholic, Roman, countries, support from, [84].

Catholics, Roman, indulgences granted, [232]; Jesuits excepted, [232]; the Marquis of Worcester derived no assistance from, [327], [328].

Catholics, Roman, Irish, inquiry respecting, [122]; Charles Ist repudiates the concessions made to, [130]; his letter to Ormond, [131]; negotiations with, repudiated by Secretary Nicholas, [132]; the whole party astounded at these abortive results, [161]; diminished hopes, Charles I. in custody at Newcastle, [175].

Catholics, Roman, laws against, [27].

Caus, De Salomon, his works, [29].

Cavaliers, Act providing for poor, [247]; fund for, [317].

Century of Inventions, a Catalogue raisonné, [17]; written, [214]; MS. copy in the British Museum, [221]; first publication, [258]; Poetical notice of, [258], [259].

Charles the First, his birth, [5]; first year of his reign, [12]; witnesses the wheel experiment at the Tower, [25]; character of his reign, [25]; 15th year, [31]; the Long Parliament, [31]; return from Scotland, [32]; retreat to Hampton Court, [32]; at Royston, [33]; at Hull, [34]; flatters the Earl of Worcester, [35]; his movements in 1641, [35]; Civil War declared, [37]; makes a convenience of the Marquis of Worcester for his wealth, [38]; his perfidious nature, [38]; members of Parliament summoned to attend at the Banqueting House, 1640, [38]; borrows money from the Marquis of Worcester, [41]; journey to Leicester, [42]; £5,000 sent for him to Newstead, [42]; “hopes he shall not die in the Marquis’s debt,” [42]; report from the King at Nottingham of his message by Lord Herbert to his father, [44], [45], [46]; Charles I. and Lord Herbert pourtrayed, [46], [47]; his tortuous policy, [55]; certain early loans from the Marquis of Worcester, [58], [59]; at York, [59]; commission of Array, [59]; attended by the Marquis of Hertford at Oxford, [67]; inconsistencies in his conduct, [69]; liberal in promises, [69]; battle of Edge-hill, [69]; sends the Earl of Glamorgan the Blue Ribbon, and a warrant for the title of Duke of Somerset, [74]; assures Glamorgan “you labour for a dear friend,” [75]; wonders he has not gone to Ireland, [75]; artful letter to Ormond, [78]; his deceptive style, [79]; profuse in professions of attachment, [81]; why selected for this negociation, [81]; reassures Glamorgan of his confidence in him, [82]; at Hereford, [83]; visits Raglan Castle, [104]; the fickle monarch a false friend, [105]; reception, [105]; returns to the Castle, [106]; his third visit, [106]; in all 27 days, [106]; discourse with the Marquis, [106]; presented with a dessert from Troy, [108]; deprives the Marquis of £6,000 deposited with his son, [109], [110]; his engagement of Glamorgan characterized, [116]; disasters in war, [117]; looks to Ireland for assistance, [117]; his urgent necessities, [117]; his plan for realizing his hopes in Ireland, [118]; repudiates Glamorgan’s proceedings in Ireland, [122]; Hume’s notice, [122], [123]; Carte’s charge, [123]; the King’s duplicity, [123]; 6,000 men ready to leave Ireland, [126]; his message to Parliament, [130]; writes to the Queen about “Glamorgan’s business,” [134]; his letter to “Glamorgan,” [134]; his consummate duplicity, [135]; charged by the Marquis of Worcester with being “wavering and fickle,” [145], [148]; his character, [157]; creates the Earl of Glamorgan, “Duke of Somerset and Beaufort,” [162]; the patent, [162], [163]; his confidence in Glamorgan not misplaced, [167]; his perfect acquaintance with the Marquis and his son, [167]; writes from Newcastle, [174]; not strictly guarded, [174]; offers to pawn his kingdoms, [174]; a copy sent to the Pope, [174]; Glamorgan devises a plan for his escape to Ireland, [175]; the King’s treatment of the noble family of Somerset, [184]; delivered up by the Scots, 1647, [189]; his execution, [189]; the Marquis of Worcester explains his conduct and powers in Ireland, to Lord Clarendon, [227]; an immense army was to have been raised, [228]; and the Pope and Catholic Princes were to supply £30,000 per month for its maintenance, [228]; hence the “amplitude of Glamorgan’s commission,” [228]; the signing and sealing, [229]; to Huntingdon, [330]; to Nottingham, to York, [330]; the Tower, [330]; his note of hand, [331]; money at Oxford, [332].

Charles the First’s correspondence; his letter, August, 1641, [32]; December, 1641, [33]; “lying pamphlets,” [33]; March, 1641–2, [33]; May, 1642, [34]; January, 1642, [39]; June, 1643, [64]; his patent granted to the Earl of Glamorgan, [70]; his instructions to him, [72]; letter, February, 1644, [74]; March, 1644, [75]; December, 1644, [78]; Commission to Glamorgan, March, 1644, [79], [80]; February, 1645, [82]; June, 1645, [82], [83]; August, 1644, [102]; August, 1644, [104]; January, 1645–6; March, 1645–6, [133]; Feb. 1645, [134]; July, 1646, [174].

Charles the Second, court at Paris, [189]; its changes, [189]; its poverty at St. Germains, [189]; at Jersey, [207]; in Scotland, [207]; in France, [207]; Louis XIV. of France, favourable to, [209]; supposed to have sent the Marquis of Worcester from France to London, [210]; the Marquis of Worcester had presented him with an ingeniously contrived box, [223]; proclaimed, [225]; his return and rejoicings, [226]; Marquis of Worcester’s petition to have his case investigated by Parliament, [231]; the King and Queen’s progress, [231], [232]; a christening at Worcester House, [232]; his coronation, [232]; homage of the nobles, [232]; sketch of his character, and that of the Marquis, [234]; attends the House of Lords, [243]; personally prorogues it, [243]; ceremony, [244]; one-tenth of the Water-commanding engine granted to him, [257]; remitted on the Marquis surrendering a warrant granting land to the value of £40,000, [257]; the Marquis’s petition to, [269]; another, [271]; draft of a letter to, [277]; coolness towards the Marquis, [295]; characteristic traits of his majesty, [307], [308]; his apathy retards the development of the steam engine, [308].

Chester, City of, 3,000 men expected for its relief, [85]; rumours of its being taken, [85]; men for its relief, [114]; Glamorgan writes about relief, [125]; 6,000 Irish ready for, [126]; 3,000 men reported ready, [135]; loss of, [138]; Glamorgan’s hopes of relief, [160]; its surrender, [161].

Chepstow fortified, [60]; belongs to the Marquis of Worcester of inheritance, [66]; named, [328], [332].

Christening present, a, [2].

Civil War, aspect of affairs, 1641, [37]; series of national disasters, [43]; party distinctions, [43]; ancient warfare, [53], [54]; perplexing state of the war, [69]; the gain and loss by, [186]; intellectual losses, incalculable, [186].

Cipher, letter written in, [180]; a sentence in, [333].

Clarendon, Earl of, resided at Worcester House, [192]; Marquis of Worcester’s letter of explanations to, [227]; offer of Worcester House, [235]; his residence, (note), [237]; at Worcester House, [260], [261]; visited by Evelyn, [261].

Cobham, Lord, his house at Blackfriars, [3]; Queen Elizabeth to stay there, [3]; attends the Queen at the water-side, [3]; her majesty sups at his house, [4]; leads the bride (Miss Russell) to church, [4].

Coke, John, his letter, [24].

Copley, Christopher, named in a Bill for settling Worcester House on the Marchioness of Worcester, [196]; may have instigated the writing of the “Century,” [215]; in the army, [215]; letter from the Marquis of Worcester, [215]; interested in the engine, [216]; obtains a written obligation from the Marquis of Worcester, [216]; he “doth undermine Worcester House,” [235]; named, [301]; some account of him, [Appendix E.]

Cornwall, Report of the Duchy of, survey of Vauxhall, [289], [290], [291]; other Reports, [Appendix G.]

Cosmo de Medici the Third, visits Vauxhall to see the Marquis’s Engine, [302].

Council, the new, of confederate Irish Roman Catholics; Glamorgan solicits consent for the post of Lord Lieutenant, [181].

Council, the Supreme, of confederate Irish Roman Catholics, Archbishop of Tuam’s death, [115]; order for his arrears, [116]; disclosures, [116]; inquiry respecting, [121]; agreement discovered, [124]; published, [124]; press for Glamorgan’s liberation, [135]; visited by Glamorgan on his liberation, [136]; exorbitant demands, [136]; Glamorgan desires its good opinion, [165]; wearied of the army expenses, [165]; resolve against sending troops over to England, [165].

Cromwell, Oliver, Bill respecting Worcester House to be tendered to him, [196]; gives his assent, [196]; his directions sought in respect to payment, [197]; he is satisfied, [198]; enjoyed the Marquis of Worcester’s Monmouthshire estates, [210]; warns his wife respecting Lord Herbert, [210]; his Warrant to allow the Marquis £3. per week, [213]; the Marquis seeks an interview with him, [217]; his death, and his son’s brief career, [225]; deeds delivered up, [247]; Herbert, his “right-hand” man, [249]; his Warrant, [Appendix F.]

Cromwell, Richard, ordered to give up deeds and writings, [238].

Cromwell, Elizabeth, letter to her, respecting Lord Herbert, [210]; ordered to give up deeds and writings, [238].

Culpepper, Lord, letter from the Earl of Glamorgan, [125].

Cumberland, Earl of, leads the bride (Lady Herbert) from church, [4].

Dean, Forest of, garrisoned, [60]; Lord Herbert entering, [62]; Sir John Winter “the plague of the forest,” [63]; the rebels quit, [63]; taken by Lord Herbert, [66]; named, [328], [332].

Dee, Dr. John, his curious preface to “Euclid,” [26].

Definition of the Water-commanding Engine, [223]; published, [Appendix C.]

Digby, George, Lord, charges the Earl of Glamorgan with high treason, [116]; Glamorgan writes to his wife, mentioning him, [128]; named also by R. Brereton, [129]; Charles Ist’s commands to, [131]; Glamorgan informs him of his business in going to France, [138]; approves Glamorgan’s resolution, [178].

Dormer, Sir William, marriage of his daughter Elizabeth to Edward, Lord Herbert, [16]; her death, [23].

—— Robert, Lord, of Weng, father of Sir William Dormer, [16]; [23].

Drebble, his stove, [264].

Edge-hill, soldiers furnished the King, by the Marquis of Worcester, [67]; named, [328].

Edward, Lord Herbert—see [Worcester].

Edward, fourth Earl of Worcester—see [Somerset], also [Worcester].

Edward, second Marquis of Worcester—see [Somerset], also [Worcester].

Elizabeth, Lady Worcester, her death recorded, [8].

Elizabeth, Lady Herbert, first wife of Edward Lord Herbert (afterwards sixth Earl of Worcester), [16]; mother of Henry, Duke of Beaufort, [16]; her two daughters, [17]; her portrait, [21], [22]; her death, [22]; funeral certificate, [23]; sister of Robert, Earl of Carnarvon, [299].

Elizabeth. Queen, her Court at Greenwich, [1]; her leave obtained for Lord Herbert and Miss Russell’s marriage, [2]; the Queen to appoint the day, [2]; promises her presence, [3]; arrives at Blackfriars, [3]; carried in a Lectica, [3]; present at a masque, [4]; danced on the occasion, [4]; her death, [5].

Engineering, early, in England, [18].

Engineers, foreign, usually employed, [18].

England, state of art and science from 1640 noticed, [188].

Fairfax, Sir Thomas, his dragoons at Padstow, obtains the Earl of Glamorgan’s despatches, [124]; opinion of Charles Ist’s message to Parliament, [130]; sends his summons to the Marquis of Worcester, [151]; takes great interest in the mining approaches to Raglan Castle, [152]; concludes terms with the Marquis, [152]; ratified, [153]; Raglan Castle surrendered, [153]; entertained at Bath, [154].

Fernes, the Roman Catholic Bishop of, Chancellor of the Congregation, [183] —see [Father Nugent].

Finch, Heneage, his report on a Petition, [273].

Fitzwilliams, Col., named, [114].

Foster, Captain William, letter in respect to, [249].

Galileo prosecuted at Rome, [27], [28]; his death, [31].

Glamorgan, Edward Somerset, Earl of, patent privily granted, [70]; copy of the patent, [70], [71], [72]; was acknowledged by Charles II. [72]; his instructions from Charles I., [72], [73], [74]; dispatches for Ireland, [74]; Charles I. acknowledges £250,000, [74]; sends him the Blue Ribbon and Warrant for the title of Duke of Somerset, [74]; detained at home, [75]; his respectful letter to his father, August, 1644, [76], [77]; termination of his military career in Wales, [77]; Charles Ist’s pretence to doubt his “judgment,” [78]; his Commission to raise troops in Ireland, [79], [80]; visits Ireland, [82]; in Ireland, [82]; letter to Ormond, [83]; estimates his navy and army expenses at £100,000, [84]; expects 3000 men from Chester, [85]; letter to Ormond, [86]; going to Waterford, [86]; has laid an embargo on shipping at Wexford, [86]; a biographical error corrected, [87]; letter of John Bythell, [87]; named as “Lord Herbert,” in Bythell’s letter, [88]; at Carnarvon, a Welsh legend, [94]; his regiment of horse, [105]; second visit to Ireland, [112]; his commissions, warrant, and patent, [112]; Ormond notes his noble ends and apparent dangers, [113]; and his “judgment,” [114]; secret negotiations, [115]; their failure, [115]; his treaty found out, [116]; charged with high treason, [116]; a close prisoner in Dublin Castle, [116]; his examination, [119]; inquiry respecting his oath, [122]; did not unduly use his great powers, [123]; deceived by the King, [123]; his letters and papers taken at Padstow, [124]; publication of his agreement with the Irish Roman Catholics, [124]; copy of his oath, [124]; has 6000 Irish ready, [126]; his letter to his wife, [127]; his imprisonment, [127]–[129]; Charles I. repudiates his proceedings to Ormond, [131]; Secretary Nicholas writes to Ormond to the same effect, [131]; vindicates the King, [132]; a second letter, repudiating his powers and patent, [133]; Charles Ist’s letter to the Queen on this affair, [134]; the King’s letter to him, [134]; set at liberty, [135]; his bail, [136]; writes to Ormond that he shall go to France. [136]; presses for a continuance of the cessation, [137]; withholds his motion from the Supreme Council, [137]; Sir V. Molineux will accompany him to France, [137]; desires Ormond’s co-operation, [138]; has informed Lord Digby, [138]; his purchase of a ship, ordnance and stores, [138]; expects to return with a fleet, [138]; learns the loss of Chester, [138]; continues in Ireland, [139]; his father indifferently informed of his operations there, [142]; at Kilkenny, [157]; his letter to the Nuncio, [158]; a peace proposed to be approved by the Pope, [159]; the raising of 7000 men to be conditional, [159]; his projected visit to Italy, [159]; engages a large supply of money, men, arms, and ships, [160]; wrote to Charles I. hoping to relieve Chester, [160]; seeming friends industriously hinder him, [161]; relies on his Majesty’s “right interpretation,” [161]; his imprisonment declared a mere colourable affair, [162]; created “Duke of Somerset and Beaufort,” [162]; the patent, [162], [163]; recital of his martial deeds, [162]; his remarks on the state of affairs, [164]; he apologizes for the King’s declaration, [164]; the King’s instructions, [164]; desires the good opinion of the Supreme Council, [165]; designed going to Rome, [165]; his letter to Father Nugent expressive of bitter disappointment and mental anguish, [166]; his operations virtually terminated, [166], [167]; perfect consistency of his conduct, [167]; had to deal with a grasping party, [168]; overmatched by Ormond, Digby, and others, [168]; opposition between his own views and those of his party, [168]; his spotless rectitude, [168]; he wrote to Ormond, [168]; reports the taking of Captain Allen, [170]; expects his own and other letters to be printed, [170]; reports several ships, [170]; his offer if joined by Ormond and the Supreme Council, [171]; the King’s “bugbear declaration,” [171]; Ormond’s approving answer, [172]; his brother in Italy, [175]; the King’s declaration “enforced upon him,” [176]; the intended articles he pronounces invalid, [177]; his bail in no danger, [177]; is debarred from calling on Ormond, [178]; his handwriting, [179]; address of a letter written in cipher, [179], [180]; scarcity of his autograph, [181]; patent to appoint him Lord Lieutenant of Ireland, [181]; his going to Rome, [181]; soliciting the post of Lord Lieutenant, [181]; “of a very mild temper,” [182]; “attached to the Apostolic See,” [182]; and “bound to it by oath and promises,” [182]; his oath, [182]; apprised of his father’s decease, [184] —see also [Edward, Earl] and [2nd Marquis of Worcester.]

Glamorgan, Countess of, her husband’s letter from Dublin Castle, [127]; incident relating to her at Raglan Castle, [149], [150]; leaves Raglan Castle, [153]; a pass granted her to Ireland, [184] —see also [Margaret, Marchioness of Worcester].

Gloucester, Lord Herbert before, [56]; stoutly defended, [56]; summoned by Prince Rupert, [56]; its reduction attempted, [56]; Lord Herbert’s horses seized, [60], [61], [62]; named, [328]; troops raised against, [333].

Goodrich Castle garrisoned, [60]; taken by Lord Herbert, [328], [332].

Gower, the Poet, quoted, [108]; works mentioned, [145]; [Appendix K.]

Greenwich, Queen Elizabeth’s court at, [1]; letter from, [3]; the Queen’s return to court, [4].

Greenwich, Charles I. at, [35].

Hall, John, the Marquis’s petition in respect of, [271]; case, [273]; named, [288].

Hall, Henry, the Marquis’s petition in respect of, [271].

Hamilton, Marquis of, Master of the Horse, [36].

Hamilton, Duke of, named, [25].

Hanneman’s painting of a family group, [30]; noticed, [311].

Harley, Lady, her Diary, [56], [57], [64].

Hartlib, Samuel, notice of Vauxhall, [266]; states the “Earl of Worcester is buying Vauxhall,” [267].

Hazilrigge, Bart., Sir Arthur, named, [42].

Henrietta Maria, Queen, at Paris, her present of jewels to the Marquis of Worcester, [313] —see [Queen Dowager].

Henry, Duke of Beaufort—see [Beaufort].

Henry, 1st Marquis of Worcester—see [Somerset], also [Worcester].

Herbert, Edward, of the Grange, [249].

Herbert, Henry, Lord—see [Henry, Earl] and [Marquis of Worcester.]

Herbert, Anne, Lady, her marriage gifts and portion, [4]; daughter of John Lord Russell, [5]; mother of 13 children, [6]; her relative Lady Morrison, [7].

Herbert, Margaret, Lady (afterwards Countess of Glamorgan), her marriage, [30]; her portrait, in a family group, [30]; her infant daughter, Mary, [30]; pass granted her to France, [187] —see [Worcester, Margaret, Marchioness of].

Herbert of Cardiffe, Lord; leads the bride (Miss Russell) to church, [4].

Hereford garrisoned, [6]; Governor of, [64]; the city taken by Lord Herbert, [66]; named, [332].

Hero of Alexandria, his “Spiritalia,” [29].

Hertford, Marquis of, [40], [55]; defeat in the West, [67]; supplied with recruits, [67]; Dukedom of Somerset confirmed to him, [243]; named, [328]; forces a loan to, [332].

Hervey discovers the circulation of the blood, [7].

Hill, Richard, a purchaser of the Marquis of Worcester’s estates, [193].

Holland, Lord, named, [59].

Hook, Dr., ridicules the engine; [292]; laughs at it, [294]; his character, [294].

Hooper, Captain, the engineer, mining at the siege of Raglan Castle, [151]; progress of his approaches, [152].

Hopton, Lord, letter from the Earl of Glamorgan, [126].

Huntingdon, Charles I. at, [58].

Huntingdon, Francis Hastings, Earl of, death of his daughter, wife of Edward, 4th Earl of Worcester, [8]; letter from the Earl of Worcester, [12].

Inventions, Century of, written, [214]; the manuscript, [221]; patent for four, [248]; list of, [249]; state of the knowledge of, [293].

Inventions of the Earl of Worcester, [Appendix A.]

Inventions, the Marquis of Worcester’s patent for four, [Appendix B.]

Ireland, visited in 1642 by the Earl of Glamorgan, [82]; the King is glad he is there, [82]; second visit, [112]; Ormond notes the Italian Bishop’s reception, [113]; to raise 10,000 men, [114]; packet boat from, boarded at Padstow, [124]; Fairfax’s report of this, [127]; the Marquis of Worcester expects benefit to Ireland through the Queen, [185]; he leaves Ireland, [185]; the Marquis’s journey, [333].

Ireland, rebellion in, [69]; Charles I.’s Commission to the Earl of Glamorgan, to raise troops in, [79], [80]; Glamorgan’s visit to, [81], [112].

Irish army, new levied, to disband, [39].

Irish Roman Catholics, offer to raise troops, [77]; difficulties arise out of their demands, [77]; the King’s narrow policy, [77]; Charles I.’s warrant to Glamorgan to treat and conclude with the confederates, [80], [81].

James I., the Pope’s bulls, [5]; reprimands Henry, Earl of Worcester, on his daughter being a nun, [6]; the King proclaimed, [7]; his reign, [11].

Jesuits excepted in the indulgence granted to Roman Catholics, [232]; the Jesuits represent their case, [232]; Henry, Marquis of Worcester, a Penitent of the Society, [232].

Jones, Lady, and Sir Philip, leave Raglan Castle, [153].

Jones, William, Steward of Raglan, [142].

Kaltoff, Caspar, a practical working engineer or machinist, so engaged, [17]; water-work s at Raglan Castle, [19]; eleven years service, [29]; named by the Marquis, [262]; stated to be a Dutchman, [266]; employed making guns, [266]; inventions and models there, [266]; visited by Dr. Hook, [293]; superintending works, [301]; he and his wife (1672) lately deceased, [305]; their children, [305]; his son-in-law, Peter Jacobson, [305]; documents relating to, [Appendix G.]

Keneys, Bart., Sir Michael, Governor of Chepstow, [142].

Kennet’s relation concerning Henry Earl of Worcester’s daughter being a nun, [6]; remarks on Edward, Marquis of Worcester, his exile and return, [209], [210].

Kirle, Colonel, his siege operations, [149].

Kuffler, Dr., his furnace, [264].

Lenthall, John, letter from, [221]; has received a present, and acknowledges his fees, [221].

Leyburn, Father George, and the Marquis of Worcester leave Ireland, [185].

Lingard, Dr. on Charles I.’s warrant to the Earl of Glamorgan, [135].

London in 1625–1636, coaches, hackney coaches, streets, pillory, whipping, mutilations, the plague, [27]; fortified in 1643, [189]; Charles delivered up by the Scots, 1647, [189]; and his execution, [189]; the Commonwealth established, [189]; public taste curtailed, [189]; the Plague, [285].

Lotherdale, Earl of, letter to, from the Marquis of Worcester, [223]; promises him an ingenious box, [223].

Louis XIV., of France, favourable to Charles II., [209].

Marriage gifts to Lady Herbert, [4]; a mock, at Raglan Castle, [97].

Masque on occasion of Lord Herbert’s marriage to Miss Russell, [3]; ladies, characters, and dresses, [3]; the dance and address to the Queen, [4]; her Majesty joined in the dance, [4].

Mathews, Sir Toby, named, [141].

Mazarine, Cardinal, the Marquis of Worcester recommended to him, [188]; opposed to Louis XIV. attempting the restoration of Charles II. [210]; presented the Marquis to the King, [281]; his gracious remark, [281].

Mechanical knowledge in the 17th century, [14].

Milford Haven, Parliament ships in, [65].

Milton born, [7].

Molineux, Sir Vivian, will accompany the Earl of Glamorgan to France, [137].

Monconis, M. de, named by Sorbière, [263]; reports new inventions, [263], [264].

Monmouth, fortified, [60]; Lord Herbert before, [63]; Waller’s success, [63]; alarm, [63]; Marquis of Worcester’s efforts, [63]; saved by the Marquis, [66]; taken by Lord Herbert, [66]; named, [328]; fortified, [332].

Monmouthshire, Cromwell enjoys the Marquis of Worcester’s estates in, [210]; his letter touching the same, [210].

Monopolists, prejudices against, [293].

Montgomeryshire, raising troops in, [64].

Moore, Lord John, Kennington, [286].

Morgan, Colonel, at Worcester, [149]; at Landenny, [149]; his regiment, [151].

Morley, Thomas, Lord, died 1416, [96].

Morrison, Lady, in the Friars, [7].

Myddleton, Sir Hugh, forms the New River, [8].

Napier, Lord, his system of logarithms, [7].

Naseby, battle of, [104].

Newport, named, [328].

Newstead, money to be sent privately to, for Charles I. [41].

Nicholas, Secretary, letter to Ormond, [131]; denounces Lord Herbert’s negotiations in Ireland, [132]; his second letter, [133].

Northampton, Earl of, named, [24].

Nottingham. Charles I. at, [44], [58].

Nugent, Father Robert, Superior of the Jesuits in Ireland, the Earl of Glamorgan’s letter expressing his distress, [165]; named, [183].

O’Brien, Henry, Earl of Thomond, his daughter Margaret’s marriage, [30]; his petition, [196]; named, [300].

O’Neill, Mr. named, [113].

Ormond, Marquis of, Lord Lieutenant of Ireland, as respects concluding a peace, the King empowers Glamorgan to act, [73], [75], [77]; the King’s letter to, Dec. 1644, [78]; Glamorgan’s letter to, [83]; recommends to conciliate the Nuncio, [84]; about Chester, [85]; and 10,000 men, [85]; Chester holds out, [86]; letter from Glamorgan, [86]; letter to, [113]; stretch of authority, [113]; approves Glamorgan’s “judgment,” [114]; his continued civility to the Earl, [115]; his suspicions aroused, [115]; his warrant to commit the Earl of Glamorgan to Dublin Castle, [116]; letter from Secretary Nicholas, [131]; repudiates Lord Herbert’s negotiations, [132]; second letter, [133]; repudiates his powers and patent, [133]; letter from Glamorgan, [136]; who intends going to France, [136]; and presses for a continuance of the cessation, [137]; Glamorgan seeks his co-operation, [138]; in England, [147]; letter from Glamorgan, [168]; his large and noble offer, [171]; an approving reply, [172], [173]; letter from Glamorgan, [175]; commends his wisdom, [177]; letter from Glamorgan, [178]; leaves Dublin, goes to Hampton Court, [184]; living at Acton, and goes thence to France, [187]; waits on the Queen, [187]; meets the Countess of Glamorgan, (Marchioness of Worcester), [188]; her ill-timed resentment, [188].

Papist, the Marquis charged with being a, [55].

Papists, and notorious malignants, [192]; warrants for seizing their estates, [192].

Papists, Parliamentary order for disarming, [43]; repudiated, and yet countenanced by Charles I., [69]; Charles II.’s declaration to banish, [294].

Paris, Marquis of Worcester leaves Ireland for, [185]; Lady Herbert (Marchioness of Worcester), has a pass to, [187]; Ormond flies to, [187]; Marchioness of Worcester at, [188]; Charles II.’s court at, [189]; the Marquis of Worcester at, [189]; full of loyal fugitives, [190].

Parliament, Henry Lord Herbert summoned to, [7]; Parliamentary duties, [8]; dispensation to be absent, [8]; the Long, [31]; jealous of Lord Herbert, [36]; notice the Marquis of Worcester and Lord Herbert, [38]; order to disarm them, [43]; Lord Herbert’s offer in reference to the Commission of Array, [59]; professes his determination, [60]; summons Lord Herbert to appear, [60]; and his father, [61]; ordinance affecting Papists, [192]; contract in pursuance of such ordinance, [193]; orders the disposal of Worcester House, [194]; petitioned by the Marchioness of Worcester, [194]; report on the petition, [195]; further report, [198]; order to pay £6. per week to the Marchioness of Worcester, [191]; reference to Committee, [199]; order, [199]; an Act, [199]; order regarding pension, [199]; order for possession of Worcester House, [199]; order on Henry Lord Herbert’s petition, [202]; question on his delinquency, [204]; petition refused, [204]; report, [205]; resolutions, [205]; persons banished by, and their property confiscated, [209]; resolutions on, [209]; orders the imprisonment of the Marquis of Worcester, [211]; on his petition order for his enlargement, [212]; sufficient bail to be taken, [212].

Parliament—at the Restoration.
House of Lords, Marchioness of Worcester’s petition about Worcester House, [235]; restoration of the Marquis’s estate ordered, [238]; discuss the subject of his patent creating him Duke of Somerset, [239]; referred to Lords named, [240]; a committee reports, [240]; message to House of Commons, [241]; increase of committee, [241]; the Patent delivered up, [242]; Bill in respect to Patents and Grants, [242]; a message from the Commons, [243]; Marquis of Worcester’s attendances, [243], [244]; prorogued, [244]; re-opening, [244]; Act for the Water-commanding engine, [253]; second reading, [254]; Lords’ committee (note), [254]; passed, [256]; attendances, [282].
House of Commons, message from the Lords, [241]; a message to the Lords, [243]; report on the Bill for the Water-commanding engine, [255]; Commons’ Committee, [255]; Bill returned to the Lords, [256]; passed, [256].

Parliament, Act of, for the Water-commanding engine, [Appendix C.]

Parliament ships reported to be in Milford Haven, [65].

Patent, Marquis of Worcester’s, for four inventions, [248]; [Appendix B.]

Patents and grants, Bill in reference to, [242].

Peacham, Henry, on mechanical knowledge, [14]; his praise of Geometry, [14], [15]; automata, [15].

Pembroke, Earl of, his town of Carlyon, [332].

Pembroke, Earl of, magazine from, [60].

Pennoyer, William, and Richard Hill, large purchasers of the Marquis of Worcester’s estates, [193]; Parliamentary resolutions in respect to the Marquis of Worcester’s estates conveyed to them, [205].

“Peter,” John Bythell, commander of the, his letter to his father, [88]; escapes shipwreck, but the cargo of corn seized, [90]; list of crew and passengers, [92]; made prisoners, [92].

Petitions, &c. dated 1665, [Appendix I.]

Pigot, Colonel, letter from R. Brereton, [130]; send him a letter for the Countess of Glamorgan, at Raglan, [180].

Pope, the, his bulls, [5]; to be conciliated, [84]; his bull, [116]; secret negotiations, [158]; a peace, to his approval, [159]; his treaty to be pre-eminent, [160]; a copy of Charles I.’s letter, [174]; Lord John Somerset to be sent on a mission to, [184]; with Catholic Princes to supply £30,000 per month to maintain an army in England, [228]; Glamorgan had power to treat accordingly, [229].

Pope’s Nuncio, the, to be conciliated, [84]; Glamorgan’s letter to, [158]; secret negotiations proposed by Glamorgan, [158]; articles on the part of his Holiness and the King, [159]; Glamorgan’s engagement, [159]; to name an Admiral, [160]; Glamorgan agrees with him to confer certain titles, [160]; his letter, [181]; promoting Glamorgan’s solicitations for post of Lord Lieutenant, [181]; expects Dublin to be taken, [182]; important to appoint a Catholic so highly approved, [182]; the King’s appointment, [182]; it is contemplated to transport the Holy Faith into England by arms, [182]; and by the Earl, a perfect Catholic, [182]; Glamorgan’s oath, [182], [183].

Popish recusants, order to disband, [39].

Popish army, rumours of a, [55].

Powis, William Herbert, Marquis of, marries Elizabeth, second daughter of Edward, Lord Herbert, [17].

Present, a christening, [2].

Projectors and monopolists, [31].

Pudding, Dr., Queen Elizabeth passing through his house is presented with a fan, [4].

Queen Dowager of England, her remark at the Court of France, in respect to the Marquis of Worcester, [281].

Raglan Castle, noticed, [8]; becomes the residence of Henry, Earl of Worcester, [8], [10]; distinguished as a luxurious residence, [12]; described, [48]; distant view of, [49]; ancient portions, [51], [52], [53]; garrisoned, [53]; ancient warfare, [53]; Lord Herbert obtains troops and stores, [57]; Countess of Glamorgan there, [95]; its garrison, [95]; ancient remains, [95], [95]; character of the family and servants there, [96]; a mock wedding and masque, [96]; visited by Charles I., [104]; military operations, [140]; the Marquis’s apartments, [140]; arrival of Allan Boteler with a message from Charles I., his reception., [144], [145]; detained, and precipitate departure, [146], [147]; the siege, [149]; a skirmish, [150], [151]; mining approaches, [151]; the garrison makes desperate sallies, [151]; cessation of arms, [152]; the castle in jeopardy, [152]; terms of surrender concluded, [153]; evacuated and delivered up to General Fairfax, [153]; departure of the Marquis, his family, friends, and retainers, [153], [154]; stores, furniture, &c. found there, [154]; letters and papers ordered to London, [155]; the castle ordered to be “pulled down and destroyed,” [156]; named, [328], [332]; expense of garrison, [333].

Raglan Church, burial of Edward Marquis of Worcester and his wife Elizabeth, [8]; “St. Cadocus,” [22]; Elizabeth, Lady Herbert’s funeral, [22]; described, [96]; the Marquis of Worcester buried at, [295]; views of, [296], [297].

Ramelli’s works, 1588, [29].

Redman, James, Worcester house, [27].

Restoration, the, [226]; coronation, [232]; prospects of the Marquis of Worcester at the, [234]; characters of Charles II. and the Marquis contrasted, [234]; advance of science, [253].

Richmond, Duke of, named, [25].

Rinuccini, the Pope’s Nuncio, gives the Marquis of Worcester an introduction to Cardinal Mazarine, [188].

Rollock, James, “an ancient servant,” [336].

Rome, visit to Claudius at, [18]; Galileo prosecuted at, [27], [28]; agent’s letters from, [116].

Roundhead party, [31].

Royal Society, established, and incorporated, [253]; proceedings noticed by M. de Monconis, [263]; Dr. Hook redicules the Marquis’s engine, and may have influenced members unfavourably, [294].

Royalist party, [31].

Rupert, Prince, Gloucester summoned by, [57]; at Bristol, [57]; letter from Lord Herbert, [62]; Lord Herbert’s dispatch, [64], [65]; offered Forest of Dean miners, [65]; his warrant to the Marquis of Worcester, [65], [66].

Russell, Francis, Earl of Bedford, [6].

Russell, Lord John, named, [5].

Russell, Miss Anne, report of her marriage to Henry Lord Herbert, [1]; letters about her marriage, [2]; her marriage at Blackfriars, [2]; the feast, [3]; ceremony and gifts, [4]. See [Anne Lady Herbert].

Russell, Lady, marriage preparations for her daughter, [2]; Queen Elizabeth carried to her house in a Lectica, [3]; her great and plentiful entertainment, continued for three days, [4]; her relative Lady Morrison, [7].

Rutland, Earl of, leads the bride (Lady Herbert) from church, [4].

Sandford, Francis, Pursuivant at Arms, at the Marquis’s funeral, [297]; account of him, [297], [298]; takes the Marquis’s funeral certificate, [300].

Seventeenth Century, popular superstitions, [339].

Shakespeare died, [7].

Siri, Vittorio, opinion of Charles I.’s message to Parliament, [130].

Somerset, Lord John, to be sent on a mission to the Pope, [184]; disposal of property by Parliament, [193]; Patent delivered up, [242]; named, [288].

Somerset, Sir John, second son, [6], [9], [43]; conveys £5,000 to Newstead, [42]; levying 500 horse, [42]; in command before Gloucester, [56]; named in Bythell’s letter, [88]; his father deposits £6000 with him, [109]; Charles I. obtains it on promise of repayment, [109]; subscribes articles, [120].

Somerset, Thomas, named, [6].

Somerset, Charles, governor of Raglan Castle, [6], [9], [53]; leaves Raglan Castle, [153].

Somerset, Frederick, his baptism, [6].

Somerset, Charles, 1st Marquis of Worcester, his autograph, (note) [309]; his marriages and death, [309], [310].

Somerset, Henry, Lord Herbert—see [Beaufort], Duke of.

Somerset, William, died 1589, [96].

Somerset House, hydraulic work on, [265] and [302].

Somerset, Edward, died 1628, [96].

Somerset, Duke of, patent in respect to the title of, [239]; Lords’ Committee to consider, [240]; conditions not fulfilled, [240]; the patent acknowledged and to be surrendered, [241]; committee, [241]; Marquis of Hertford, his title of Duke of Somerset confirmed, [243].

Somerset, Henry, 2nd Marquis of Worcester, [310].

Somerset, William, 3rd Marquis of Worcester, [310].

Somerset, Edward, 4th Marquis of Worcester, [310].

Somerset, Henry, 5th and 1st Marquis of Worcester, [310].

Somerset, Edward, 6th and 2nd Marquis of Worcester, [310].

Sorbière, M. Samuel, his book, [262]; criticised by Dr. Sprat, [263]; names M. de Monconis, [263]; and new inventions, [264]; visits Vauxhall to see the Marquis of Worcester’s engine, [264]; notices the waterworks at Somerset House, [265].

Sprat, Dr., criticises Sorbière, [263].

St. Cadocus.—see [Raglan Church.]

Sydney, Sir Robert, correspondence, [2].

Theobalds, Charles I. to, [35], [58].

Thomond, Earl of.—see [Henry O’Brien, Earl of Thomond.]

Thurloe, Secretary, letter from the Marquis of Worcester, [217].

Tisser, Ann, a widow, in possession of the Gate-house of Worcester House, resists giving up possession, [239]; is charged with contempt and speedily ejected, [293].

Tower of London, Marquis of Worcester, his great experiment there before Charles I., [24], [25], [26]; committed a prisoner to, [211]; enlarged, [212]; Lord Herbert, committed a prisoner, [233]; his letter from the Tower, [233]; Captain William Foster a prisoner, [249]; the Marquis’s letter, [250]; his “six years’ experience,” [251]; period of the Marquis’s imprisonment considered, [252].

Travers, William, Roman Catholic Priest, his letter to the Dowager Marchioness of Worcester, [Appendix D.]

Troy House, [6], [9]; fruit from, [109].

Tuam, Roman Catholic Archbishop of, his death, [115]; papers found, [116].

Vandyck, painter, [21]; his portraits, [21], [22].

Vauxhall, treating for, [213]; the Marquis may have resided there, [261]; Sorbière’s visit, [262]; his notice, [264]; designation of, [265]; notice of by Hartlib, [266]; “the Earl of Worcester is buying Vauxhall,” [267]; Petition respecting, [286]; £50,000 expended there in experiments, [286]; survey of land and works, [289]–[291]; Dr. Hook’s visit, [292]; visited by Cosmo de Medici the Third, [302]; summary of work there for 7 years, [337]; documents relating to, [Appendix G.]

Vavasour, Colonel, with Lord Herbert, raising troops, [64]; Governor of Hereford, [64].

Vavasour, Sir William, [65], [333].

Venice, visit to the arsenal at, [18].

Waller, Sir William, defeats Lord Herbert before Gloucester, [56], [57]; prisoners taken, [57]; before Monmouth, [63]; named, [328].

Warfare, ancient, [53], [54].

Warrant, Cromwell’s, for a weekly allowance of £3 per week to the Marquis, [213], [Appendix F.]

Water-works at Raglan, [19], [20], [21].

Water-commanding Engine, named in a letter to the Earl of Lotherdale (January 1660), [223]; the Marquis alludes to, expecting an Act for it, [223]; his “truly significant definition,” [224]; earliest distinct reference, [225]; its progress, [253]; application to Parliament, [253]; the Act passed, [256]; one-tenth granted to Charles II. [257]; the same remitted to the Marquis on surrender of a warrant granting him lands to the value of £40,000, [257]; (and note), [257]; seen by Sorbière, [264]; the public prove sceptical, [268]; intelligence respecting it, [268]; Act, and posting bills respecting, [291]; set up at Vauxhall, [291]; seen by Dr. Hook, [292]; its practical character, [300]; seen by Cosmo de Medici the Third, at Vauxhall, [302]; mentioned in 1670, in a letter, [303]; latest intelligence, [304]; the Marquis’s principal invention, [305]; means taken for publishing it, [305], [306]; his three accounts of it, [306]; generally unnoticed by contemporaries, [306]; its superiority, [307]; it was in advance of the age, [307]; operations to give it publicity, [336]; a model to be deposited, [336]; and one to be buried, [337]; summary of work at Vauxhall, [337]; probable learned and wealthy visitors, [338], [339]; Act for, [Appendix C.]

Watkins, Sir David, £20 loan, [214].

Wheel, the great, experiment at the Tower, [24], [25], [26].

Willis, Mr., his inventions, [264].

Williams, Sir Trevor, his siege operations, [149]; seized 80 horses, [149].

William, Lord Herbert, at Oxford, [6]; early decease, [6].

Winter, Sir John, Forest of Dean, [63]; united with Lord Herbert. [63]; deserts and spoils the Forest, [64].

Wood, Ant. À. his account of William Lord Herbert, and his brother Henry Somerset, at Oxford, [6]; their ages, [6], [7]; remarks on Henry, Lord Herbert, [11]; on his religion, [11].

Woodcroft, Bennet, F.R.S. list of copies of Documents in his possession respecting the Marquis of Worcester, [Appendix F.]; Cromwell’s warrant, ibid.

Worcester, Edward, Somerset, 4th Earl of, rumour of his son’s intended marriage, [1]; christening of Sir Robert Sydney’s daughter, [2]; waiting on Queen Elizabeth, [2]; his christening present, [2]; his son Henry Lord Herbert’s marriage, [2], [3], [4], [5]; invested with Order of the Garter, [7]; Keeper of the Privy Seal, [7]; his death, [8]; his autograph, [12]; his horsemanship and athletic acquirements, [13]; named, [299].

Worcester, Edward Somerset, 6th Earl and 2nd Marquis of, (Lord Herbert, from 1601 to 1642), notice of, [2]; one of 13 children, [6]; at Oxford, [6]; family associations, [9]; probable date of his birth, [10]; at eight years of age, [10]; his preceptor, Mr. Adams, [10]; his education, and on the continent, [11]; at Charles the First’s court, [11]; at 24 years of age, [11]; Raglan Castle, a luxurious residence, [12]; a young nobleman’s education, [12]; personal appearance, [13]; defect in speech, [13]; his style of composition, [13]; state of mechanical science, [16]; his first marriage, [16]; his family of one son and two daughters, [16], [17]; Henry created Duke of Beaufort, [17]; account of his marriage, [17]; engages the mechanic Caspar Kaltoff, [17]; a work-shop, [17]; predilection for mathematical and mechanical studies, [17]; continental tour, [18]; at Rome and Venice, [18]; domestic and studious habits, [18]; early inventions, [18]; his inventive faculty, [19]; his water-works at Raglan, [19], [20], [21]; Vandyck’s portrait, [21]; his “golden days,” [22]; attests his wife’s funeral certificate, [23]; letter from Secretary Coke, [23]; at Worcester House [24]; his Wheel at the Tower, [24]; described, [25]; exhibited to Charles I. [25]; paradoxes, [25], [26]; his married life, [26]; a widower, [26]; studies and pursuits, [27]; studies matured, [28]; a mathematician, [28]; of delicate frame, [28], [29]; his books, [29]; second marriage, [30]; his Irish connexions, [30]; death of his child, Mary, [30]; painting of a family group, [30]; strange costume, [30], [31]; resident in London, [31], [32]; letter from Charles I. [33]; “lying pamphlets,” [33]; Charles I. another letter, [33]; indisposition, [34]; at 40 years of age, [35]; his declaration in regard to the King’s early movements, [35]; fears the Parliament, [36]; noticed by Parliament, [38]; order to consider his commission, [38]; Parliamentary order to disarm him, [43]; order for his appearance, [43]; at Nottingham, [44]; his minute report of Charles Ist’s message to his father, [44], [45], [46]; Lord Herbert’s interview with Charles I. at Nottingham pourtrayed, [46], [47]; residence at Raglan Castle, [48]; has the command of 500 horse, [54]; in his military capacity, [55]; made General of South Wales, [56]; General of the horse, [56]; before Gloucester, [56]; attempts its reduction, [56]; defeat and loss, [57]; appears to have been at Oxford, [57]; at Hereford, [57]; called to the Forest of Dean, [58]; dispensing his father’s loans to Charles I., [58], [59]; in fear of Parliament, [58]; takes leave of it, [59]; retires to Raglan, [59]; his offer to Parliament, [59]; his declaration to uphold the King’s cause, [60]; raises six regiments, [60]; horses seized at Gloucester, [60], [61]; summoned to Parliament, [60]; letter to Prince Rupert, [62]; entering Forest of Dean, [63]; before Monmouth, [63]; flight of his troops, [63]; unites with Sir John Winter, [63]; raising troops in Montgomeryshire, [64]; a dispatch to Prince Rupert, [64], [65]; reports ships in Milford Haven, [65]; offer of Forest of Dean miners for Bristol, [65]; recital of his military exploits, [66]; no contemporary account of them, [67]; reduces Abergavenny and Carlyon, [67]; his troop of Life Guards, [67]; gained no military celebrity, [68]; his character as a commander, [68]; created Earl of Glamorgan, [70]; his autograph as Edward Lord Herbert, [77]; water-works at Raglan, [100], [101]; his father’s reproof on his demanding money for the king, [101], [101], [102]; procures the king £6000, committed to his brother’s care, [109]; —(See Earl of Glamorgan, [transactions preceding his father’s death.])— his letter to the Bishop of Fernes, [184]; expects the Queen to befriend Ireland, [185]; leaves Ireland for France, [185]; in exile, [186]; his inventions neglected in his time, [187]; styled “Lord Herbert of Raglan,” and a pass to France granted to his wife, [187]; account of his being in Paris, [188]; his introduction to Cardinal Mazarine, [188]; seeks to be Lord Lieutenant of Ireland, [188]; interview between his wife and Ormond, [188]; her ill-timed resentment, [188]; at St. Germain’s, [189]; wrote to Charles II., and his gracious reply, [190]; four or five years in France, [190]; general poverty, [191]; difficulties in the way of study abroad, [191]; his family in England, [192]; disposal of his property by Parliament, [193]; Worcester House, during his life, [195]; a Bill for settling the same, [195]; his son and two daughters, [201]; his property, [202], [203], [204]; Parliamentary resolutions in regard to valuation, [205], [206], [207]; a trying period of five years, [207]; his property assists the Government, [207]; treatment of his wife and family significant of his being esteemed, [208]; return to England, [209]; Parliamentary resolution in regard to him as being banished and his property confiscated, [209]; supposed to have been sent to England by Charles II., [210]; his visit considered, [210], [211]; committed to the Tower, [211]; his trial to be considered, [211]; his petition, [212]; order for his liberation, [212]; period of confinement, [213]; his age, [213]; loan of £20., [214]; summary of his history, [214]; his “Century” written, [214]; writes to Chris. Copley, [215]; his solemn obligation to Chris. Copley, [216]; names his “water-work,” [216]; letter to Secretary Thurloe, [217]; desires an interview with Cromwell, [218]; probable meaning of his letter, [218], [219], [220]; letter to the Earl of Lotherdale, [223]; promises him an ingeniously contrived box, [223]; his humour not to produce an invention a second time, [223]; looks for an Act of Parliament, [223]; offers his lordship the benefit of £500 (share), [223]; his “definition,” [224], [225]; earliest distinct reference, [225]; his wonderful inventive faculty, [225]; his son resident at Badminton, [226]; letter of explanations to Lord Clarendon, [227]; exposed himself to “any expense or difficulty,” [227]; object to screen Charles I., [228]; the “amplitude of his commission,” [228]; the “height of his Majesty’s design,” [228]; immense army arrangements, [228]; £30,000 from the Pope and Catholic Princes, [228]; the signing and sealing, [229]; no use made by him of his great powers, [229]; his petition in respect to grants and promises made by Charles I., to his father and himself, to recommend the same to the notice of Parliament, [230]; circular note to creditors, [231]; his prospects at the Restoration, [234]; sketch of his character and that of Charles II., [234]; political enemies, [235]; offer of Worcester House to Lord Clarendon, [235]; seeks his friendship, [236]; refers to the “obnoxiousness of his religion,” [236]; intimates his desire to make a secret communication to the King, in his lordship’s presence, [237]; conjecture as to his meaning, [237], [238]; he petitions the House of Lords, [238]; restoration of his estates ordered, [238]; deeds and writings, his property, ordered to be given up, [238]; Ann Tisser’s purchase, [239]; his Patent, a prejudice to the Peers, [239]; Lords’ committee to consider, [240]; acknowledges a patent to create him Duke of Somerset, [240]; delivers up his patent, [242]; reflections on the treatment he receives, [242]; retained the titles of Earl of Glamorgan and Baron Beaufort, [243]; attends the House of Lords, [243]; present when the king prorogues parliament, [244]; petition in respect to debts, [245]; bill to restore his estates, [245]; encumbered, [246]; petitioners against him, [246]; magnitude of his claims, [247]; his patent for four inventions, [248]; further inventions, [249]; his letter in testimony of Captain Foster’s character, [250]; a second letter, [251]; “my six years’ experience of him during my imprisonment in the Tower,” [251]; period of his own imprisonment considered, [252]; the pot-lid story exploded, [252]; Act for his water-commanding engine, and he attends the House, [253], [254], [256], [256]; passed, [256]; surrenders a warrant to the value of £40,000, [257]; and note, [257]; may have resided at Vauxhall, [261]; noticed by Sorbière, [264]; his secresy in regard to works, [266]; reported to be buying Vauxhall, [257]; at Vauxhall, [268]; Duke of Albemarle represents his case, [269]; his petition to Charles II. [269]; another, in respect to Henry and John Hall, [271]; Finch’s report, [273]; case as respects John Hall, [273]; offers a gratuity of £500 per annum, [275]; seeks to set up an engine, [276]; offers a judgment in lieu of preceding gratuity, [276]; a draft letter, [277]; Mazarine’s remark, [281]; Queen Dowager’s saying, [281]; borrows £200, [281]; petitions for a Committee of Inquiry, [283]; his autograph, [283]; referred, [284]; censures Lord Arlington, [284]; could have £50,000 yearly abroad, [284]; he does “as good as want bread,” [285]; his birth-right, [285]; foreign censure, [285]; speaks of two petitions unnoticed, [285]; petition in respect to Vauxhall, [286]; £50,000 expended in experiments, [286]; survey of land and works at Vauxhall, [289]–[91]; his working-house or Operatory, [291]; his Act, and posting bills, [291]; his anomalous position as an inventor, [293]; alludes to his melancholy, [294]; neglected by, yet clings to the court, [295]; his death, [295]; probably at Lambeth, [295]; buried at Raglan, and inscription, [295]; his arms and funeral certificate, [298]–[300]; mis-statement about his burial, note, [298]; his prayer on beholding the completion of his engine, [300]; brief genealogical retrospect, [309], [310]; in his youth, [311]; his marriage, [311]; the civil war, [311]; as Earl of Glamorgan, [312]; valuable present from the Queen while he was an exile in France, [313]; his “Century,” [314]; his inventions and experiments, [315]; his public appeal, [316]; list of five inventions, [316]; a further list, [317]; Cromwell allows him £3 per week, [317]; statement of his expenses and losses through Charles I., [319]; spent and lost £800,000, [321]; proposes a troop of Life-guards, [322]; an ordinary for indigent officers, [324]; four causeways, [325]; offer of £1000 for repairing St. Paul’s, [325], [326]; his troop of Life-guards, [328], [329]; his father’s remark thereon, [329]; took leave of the Parliament (1641), [331]; writes a sentence in cipher, [333]; troops at Gloucester, [333]; summary of his proposed address, [335]; its date, [335]; his estimate of the value of the Engine, [338]; made it public, [338]; his great acquired knowledge, [340]; his promised work, [341]; neglected by contemporaries, [341]; general estimate of his character and his “Century,” [342]; early list of his inventions, [Appendix A.]; his Patent for inventions, [Appendix B]; his “Definition and Act,” [Appendix C.]; apocryphal passages relating to, [Appendix H.]; Petitions, etc., of 1665, [Appendix I.]

Worcester, Henry, Earl and 1st Marquis of, his reported marriage, [1]; sent to a christening, [2]; letters about his marriage, [2]; preparations for his marriage at Blackfriars, [2]; a memorable masque, [3]; feast, [3]; ceremony, [3], [4]; Lord and Lady Herbert at court, [4]; his age, [6]; summoned to Parliament, [7]; resident in London, [8]; his family, [9]; his character and constitution, [9]; family at Raglan, [9]; his autograph, [10]; at forty-eight years of age, [12]; letter from Secretary Coke, [23]; his son and heir, [23]; death of his wife, [31]; letter from Charles I., [32]; munificent advances to the King, [34]; created Marquis of Worcester, [37]; his age, [37]; person, age and wealth, [37]; noticed by Parliament, [38]; order to consider his commission, [38]; guard set on his house, [39]; letter from Charles I. [40]; sends the King £5,000 to Newstead, [42]; the King “hopes he shall not die in his debt,” [42]; Parliamentary order to disarm him, [43]; ordered to appear before the House, [43]; Raglan Castle garrisoned, [43]; message of Charles I. to him, as reported by Lord Herbert, from Northampton, [44], [45], [46]; the Marquis’ character, [28]; Raglan Castle described, [48], [51], [52], [53]; warlike preparations, [53]; his wealth, [54]; his horses and stables, [54]; early rumours against him, [55]; Lord Herbert obtains troops and stores, [57]; certain loans to Charles I., [58], [59]; Lord Herbert leaves London for Raglan, [59]; summoned to appear before Parliament, [61]; Monmouth mostly the Marquis’s tenants, [63]; calls in the aid of Prince Rupert to assist Monmouth, [63]; letter from Charles I., 1643, [64]; promise of title (of Duke), [64]; Prince Rupert’s warrant, [65], [66]; he saves Monmouth, [66]; it belongs to him of inheritance, [66]; supplies the Marquis of Hertford with recruits, [67]; furnishes the King with soldiers at Edge-hill, [67]; Charles I. acknowledges £250,000, [74]; sixty-three years of age, [95]; marriage of his daughter Elizabeth, [97]; a masque and mock marriage for entertainment, [97], [98], [99], [100]; practical joke on searchers for arms, [100], [101]; reproof to Lord Herbert, [101], [102]; letter from Charles I., [102]; promise of the Garter, [103]; another letter, [103]; enclosing a warrant to create him Duke of Somerset, [103]; “a match propounded for his grandchild,” [103]; visited by Charles I. [104]; his reception, [105]; his free discourse with the King, [106]–[8]; characteristic dinner incident, [108], [109]; reproves Lord Herbert for procuring the King £6,000, deposited with his son, Lord John Somerset, [109]; apartments at Raglan, [140]; his great state, [140]; order of his household, [140]–[142]; a message from Charles I. by the hand of Allen Boteler, [142]; Boteler’s tedious journey, [143]; and arrival at Raglan, [144]; harsh reception, [144]; interview with the Marquis, [144], [145]; the Marquis’s sharp reply to Boteler, concerning Charles I., [145]; the messenger delayed, [145]; Boteler’s despatches and return, [146], [147]; his strong and sincerely expressed feeling on the King’s treatment of himself and his son, [148]; his angry reception of the King’s messenger, [148], [149]; the siege of Raglan castle, [149]; anecdote during the siege, [150]; summons from General Fairfax, [151]; numerous messages pass, [151]; requires the King’s approval, [151]; conditions offered, [151]; a drum sent out, [152]; a cessation of arms, [152]; the castle in jeopardy, [152]; concludes terms for surrender of his castle, [152], [153]; he leaves with his family, friends, retainers, and others, [153], [154]; removed to Covent Garden, in charge of the Black Rod, [154]; his death four months after, [155]; his funeral expenses, [155]; Parliamentary order to destroy Raglan Castle, [156]; lands of, [201]; a Penitent of the Society of Jesuits, [232].

Worcester, Anne, Countess of, her death, [31].

Worcester, Countess of—see [Marchioness of Worcester.]

Worcester, Margaret, Marchioness of, a pass granted her to France, as “Lady Herbert,” [187]; meets Ormond in Paris, her ill-timed resentment, [188]; petition in respect of Worcester House and property, [194]; her peculiar situation politically, [195]; report on her Petition, [195]; Bill for settling Worcester House, [195]; the same, [196]; possession to be granted, [197]; sum to be paid, [197]; referred to a Committee, [197]; report, [198]; order to pay her £6 per week, [198]; has rooms in Worcester House, [199]; an Act for settling Worcester House on her, [199]; order for payment of her pension, [199]; order to give up the house, [199]; her petition respecting her husband’s imprisonment, [212]; draft petition, [222]; petitions against undermining Worcester House, [235]; petition in respect to, [287], [288]; John Hall, [288]; petition ordered to be represented, [289]; named, [300]; residing at Lincoln’s Inn Fields, [303]; letter from her confessor, [303]; Wm. Travers’s letter to, [Appendix D.]

Worcester House, noticed and sketched, [8], [10]; death of Lady Herbert there, [22], [23]; residence there, [26]; guard set on, [39]; account of it, [192]; iron seized there to be sold, [192]; used by the Parliament, [193]; soldiery lodged there, [194]; its disposal ordered, [194]; rooms given to the Marchioness of Worcester, [199]; to be examined, [199]; an Act for settling, [199]; possession ordered, [199]; conveyance in trust, [200]; christening at, [292]; petition in respect to, [287].

York, Charles I. at, [58], [59].

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